Quotes About Learning

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.

He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.

Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.

He should discard the texts altogether, as the man who seeks rice discards the husk.

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man.

We cannot go after thousands of men until we learn how to win one.

A man who reviews the old so as to find out the new is qualified to teach others.

Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth, but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.

This is a young man who is only 25, and you have to say, her has answered every question that has ever been asked.

Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.

You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.

The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.

Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.

I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.

I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to do something with it. I feel the need to pay back what was given to me. Call it gratitude.